Word: center
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since this lack of constructive influence is a function of size, the best way to make the library a positive, educational factor is to isolate the one hundred thousand books needed by College students. Such isolation could best be accomplished by construction of an undergraduate Book Center...
...Book Center would be a friendly building, divided into many rooms and dens; each room would contain books on a related group of subjects, and to each room would be appended stacks, open to anybody. A personable reference staff would be ready to help students at any time. And pervading the Center would be an air of informality. Comfortable chairs, lounge rooms available for discussions, a tuck shop--these are but a few of the conveniences--would make studying desirable instead of damnable...
...advantages of such a Book Center are two-fold. First it would establish a balance between graduate students and undergraduates, as far as library facilities were concerned. To get a book in the Center would mean turning around in a chair and picking it off the shelves. And if a student wished to pursue a subject at length, the staff could give him adequate and exact references in Widener...
...Manhattan the President and Board of Directors of Rockefeller Center, Inc. mailed out big 11" x 8½"), formal, engraved invitations requesting "the honour of your presence at a ceremony in the course of which Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. will drive the last rivet [of silver alloy] in the fourteenth and final building of Rockefeller Center on Wednesday afternoon, November first...
...ball gave the Green booters an opportunity to which they added a new spirit gained during the half. Harvard's eleven relapsed into their slipshod habits of the past few weeks, bunching, muffing, and slowing down, and the result was that Doano, Indian left inside, and Eckhardt, high scoring center, hit pay dirt and tied up the score...